The Six Minute Dream Project

That is not to say you will be done and dusted with the project in Six Minutes Flat (unless you are in any way related to this fellow) 

 

The objective of the Six Minute Dream is to get your vision, your idea for the prospective project out in class, to get feedback from your peers and professors. 

While you are busy contemplating (gazing pensively into the far distances etc as mentionedbefore) what project to take up, keep in mind, at all time these two points:

 

Point a) 

It should be useful i.e something non-trivial, valuable and even better, counter-intuitive should emerge from your findings. For instance, hours and days of crunching terabytes of financial data on a monster of a data mining package should yield something more substantial than the glorious result "Companies go bankrupt because of lack of money")

 

Point  b) 

It should be feasible i.e within the bounds of possibility to complete in one term.

Good quality data must be available (For instance, while  "Finding Patterns in Classified Top Secret MOSSAD internal communications about Covert Operations " might seem an interesting project, it won't do well at point b. Unless, of course, you are this guy.)

 

 

Every team is expected to come up with a One Page Writeup about their dream project, upload it to this blog  and present/discuss the same in class  on 1st October. This presentation will be a 6 min communication of your idea to the class and profs. Think of it as a Pre-Proposal for the Project. 

No powerpoint slides for class presentation, just coherent ideas.

 

 

Guidelines for the One Page Writeup:

Mention:

1) Project Name, Team Number (u can go crazy and call your team a name!) + Team Members

2) The Problem Statement

3) Data Source (preferrably the type of data available)

4) The Benefit / Utility : Who will potentially benefit from the insights mined? How? 

5) Expected Outcomes: Gut feeling about what you expect might be the findings.

 

It is not expected that you know for sure which tool or technique you will use

 (of course, if you have some idea,  feel free to mention it! - What is important is that you have a fair idea what the  problem is that you plan to solve. Know thy pain-point! )

 

Submission Procedure:

Post this One-Page Write Up on the Blog: 

Log In and Create a New Post with the Title

 "TeamNo_ProjectName_6MinDream". 

 

Copy-Paste the contents of the OnePage Doc to the Post and Press Publish Post.

(In case of any difficulties with blog access, you can e-mail me the one page doc. Please name the file "TeamNo_ProjectName_6MinDream.doc" )

 

 

Timelines:

29 September 09:59:59 - One Page Writeup up on the Blog

1 October -   Presentation and Discussion of your idea in Class

 

 

Welcome to BI Tools and Techniques

This blog has been created to provide assistance as well as an ongoing record of the Projects undertaken as part of the Business Intelligence Tools and Techniques Course at IIM Calcutta. The course co-coordinators are Prof Asim Pal and Prof Ambuj Mahanti.

I am Myshkin Ingawale, your Teaching Assistant for this course. You may fire all your project related queries at me, and thereby give me the opportunity to either display my profound ignorance or more hopefully, guide you along the path to Business Intelligence Awesomeness.

While, generally speaking, anything goes as far as type, quantity and quality of posts on this blog is concerned, you are requested to follow the following guidelines:

1. Respect other people's posts: Do not Edit any posts bar your own.
2. Please make sure you have something substantial to say either about your project or about the subject in general before you initiate a new post here. Short conversations and requests for info (on deadlines, quizzes, tools for Total World Domination, etc) are for the BB or the Comments section.
   
3. While posting Project related information (such as Project Proposal) , please Title your post by the name and number of your project, team number and submission type. E.g: Financial Crisis | Project No xx | Team No xx | Project Proposal
   
4. As your project proceeds along its way, feel free to add matter to your existing project post rather than creating a brand new post for every new change made to the project.
5. Data Redundancy makes for Reliability: Keep a Doc copy of important submissions like Project Proposal, etc on your harddrive.